Students and staff from 35 tribal colleges in the U.S. and Canada met in Wisconsin earlier this month for the 25th annual American Indian Higher Education Consortium.

The conference, hosted by the Menominee Nation College, featured more than a dozen competitions business, finance, arts and science. There were also hand games and a student congress.

Teams from the Oglala Lakota College swept the speech and filmmaking categories and placed in the business, Web design, traditional art and science categories. The OLC team also won the hand game contest and student Orlando Avery, 21, was elected to as congress historian.

Next year's conference takes place in Rapid City.

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Students from OLC win big at American Indian Higher Education Consortium (The Rapid City Journal 3/27)

Relevant Links:
AIHEC Conference - http://www.menominee.edu/aihec/home.htm
American Indian Higher Education Consortium - http://www.aihec.org